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Lithium Battery Policy for Domestic and International Flights Can I bring my batteries on the plane? Lithium batteries are allowed on planes, but the rules vary by airline. We look at each major airline and...

How to Charge a DJI Spark Offgrid The DJI Spark is DJI's smallest drone offering. If you are offgrid, there are two ways to charge a DJI Spark from an external battery pack or power bank. Option 1: Charge...

How To: Keep Camera Batteries Warm Keeping camera batteries warm in cold weather will increase the number of photos you can take. We asked several of our photographers who work in cold places how they...

The Trump Administration has imposed 30% tariffs on solar panels made outside of the United States. Those tariffs are targeting large modules for commercial and household installations, but they will sweep up...

Rainforest Connection has been working to monitor and detect illegal deforestation and poaching. Their thesis is that if "you can protect the trees, you end up protecting everything else." They use old...

Here at Voltaic we understand the importance of taking environmental sustainability seriously. Throughout the life cycle of our products we do our best to conserve resources by identifying the best practices...

Handpicked by Voltaic staff, our 2017 Holiday Gift Guide features five items that are guaranteed to make holiday gifting easy this year. From powerful solar backpacks for your favorite photographer to...

Tips for Traveling with Solar One of the biggest questions we get from customers is regarding the safety of traveling with solar chargers and lithium ion battery packs. Whether you're flying to another state...

The Drifting Buoy Project currently has three buoys drifting in the North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific. The buoys measure surface location, speed, direction, water temperature and light. The...

We deployed our water quality sensor in a basin near the East River nearly three weeks ago and it is consistently reporting water quality data. Using circuit and software design by Dylan Sri-Jayantha and...

Located in historic Fort Tilden National Park, Camp Rockaway is a 6-week popup campsite created by local architect Kent Johnson. Designed as a way to promote the outdoors as well as the history of Fort Tilden...

This post was written by the team at PERCH.LA Ideally, we’d all have solar panels on our homes. The reality is that many of us aren’t homeowners or don’t live in a home that can support a solar array....

Using Raspberry Pi in a remote time lapse environment requires power management or a very large solar panel. Dan Julio designed a Raspberry Pi expansion board for the Pi Zero called the Solar Pi Platter that...

Maybe, but probably not that well. Charging battery packs from a solar panel isn't as straightforward as you think - even if the solar panel output is regulated. We recently tested 10 different battery...

SweetSense is a Portland based company that builds remote monitoring for global development projects like water pumps, water filters, cookstoves and latrines. In one of their latest projects, they are...

Franklin Robotics launched the Kickstarter campaign for Tertill, the solar powered gardening robot. Created by the inventor of the Roomba, Tertill patrols your garden looking for weeds and whacks them into...

Spoondrift just launched their Spotter, a real-time ocean monitoring device. The Spotter collects ocean wave and surface current data and reports it via satellite to a web dashboard. They also use our 2 Watt...

Solar for beehive monitoring is just one of the many ways we've seen our solar charging systems successfully integrated into IoT projects. Founded by hobbyist-beekeeper and electrical/system engineer Rich...